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Josephine Miles Lewis (10 March 1865 – 11 May 1959) was an American 
Impressionist
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...
artist. The first student, female or otherwise, to graduate from Yale University with a bachelor's in Fine Arts and the University's second female graduate overall, Lewis was known for her portraits of children.
Early life
Josephine Miles Lewis was born in 1865 in New Haven, Connecticut. In her childhood and young adulthood her father,Henry Gould Lewis
Henry Gould Lewis (September 9, 1820 – December 25, 1891) was an American politician. He was Mayor of New Haven for four terms and served in the Connecticut House of Representatives.
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, was the mayor of New Haven for four terms.
Time at Yale
The Yale School of Art was one of the few at the University open to women as well as men, on the request of donor Augustus Russell Street. As a result, women made up a high percentage of the school's attendees, though Lewis was the first to graduate with a degree from the School of Art, earning a certificate in 1887 and a bachelor's in fine arts in 1891.Career after Yale
Lewis spent the five years after her graduation studying Impressionist art in Paris and Giverny, along with her sister Matilda. She was one of a number of art students who made a pilgrimage to Giverny, France to be in the presence of Claude Monet, staying at the Baudy hotel near Monet's home. Lewis split her professional life between New Haven, New York andScituate
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, Massachusetts.
Works
Works by Lewis are owned by the Yale University Art Gallery, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Farnsworth Art Museum, among others.References